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(10) Store your coins properly. If you buy a coin for $10,000, drop it on the street on the way home and it gets a scratch on it, it may be worth only $1,000 by the time you reach the front door. That can be devastating-just as devastating as paying 10 times too much for a coin in the first place. Similarly, your coins can suffer serious, permanent damage after you get them home ... or put them in your safe deposit box ... if you don't take proper precautions to see that they're safely stored. Make sure to store your coins in a dry, stable environment and, if possible, make sure that each coin's surface is free from airborne pollutants before you put the coins in long-term storage, even if the coin is in a tamperresistant holder of a grading service. Those holders are air tight but not air free. You also need to exercise proper care and judgment in the way you handle your coins. When removing coins from holders that have staples in them, always be careful to remove the staples first. And never use your fingers-your bare fingers-to hold the front or back of a coin; always hold the coin tightly by its edges. You owe it to future generations of collectors to maintain your coins in the same level of preservation in which you received them. You also owe it to yourself—for if you don't, you'll pay a heavy penalty financially. H Scott A. Travers, Scott Travers Rare Coin Galleries, LLC P.O. Box 1711, FDR Station New York, New York 10150 travers@usgoldexpert.com HYLAND